Environmental vocabulary service

The National Environmental vocabulary service is the IT infrastructure within the NEII, developed to host selected environmental vocabularies. It provides a uniform mechanism for publishing standardised vocabularies and supports the ability to query vocabularies and terms; and identify and navigate hierarchies of terms.

The NEII Environmental vocabulary service provides a mechanism to create, curate and publish environmental vocabularies making them accessible to computers, systems and people.

Network ID is the unique identifier of the network within the National Environmental Monitoring Sites Register. A network is a collection of sites. The Network ID is allocated by the NEMSR system owner (Bureau of Meteorology) and the list will expand as networks are added.

Observation method is a high-level classification of the method used to make environmental observations. The initial list of methods is based on a subset of NASA's Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Platforms keyword list (http://gcmd.nasa.gov/learn/keyword_list.html).

Observed property is the environmental phenomenon (property) being measured at a site, for example, streamflow, soil moisture, or air pressure. The vocabulary of observed properties is based on a subset of NASA's Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science and Services keywords (http://gcmd.nasa.gov/learn/keyword_list.html).

Sampling regime is the frequency of site observations. The initial list of sampling regimes is based on a subset of NASA's Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Temporal Data Resolution keywords (http://gcmd.nasa.gov/learn/keyword_list.html).

This scheme specifies the concept space for Simple Lithology concepts, as defined by the IUGS Commission for Geoscience Information (CGI) Geoscience Terminology Working Group. By extension, it includes all concepts in this conceptScheme, as well as concepts in any previous versions of the scheme. This vocabulary is not designed to be a comprehensive list of all lithology terms.